The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 73
One of the thieves started up and offered to do this, and after the rest had highly commended him for his bravery he disguised himself, and happened to enter the town at daybreak, just by Baba Mustapha’s stall.
Who acts: One, messenger · What happens: start up, offer, do, commend, disguise, happen · To what, where: this, messenger, town, daybreak
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, messenger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 started | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 thieves | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thieves | det |
| 4 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 started | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 offered | cc |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 started | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 offered | xcomp |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 commended | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 commended | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 rest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rest | det |
| 16 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 commended | obl |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 commended | aux |
| 18 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 19 commended | advmod |
| 19 | commended | commend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 started | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 commended | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 bravery | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bravery | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 commended | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 disguised | nsubj |
| 25 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 bravery | acl:relcl |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 disguised | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 happened | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 happened | cc |
| 29 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 enter | mark |
| 31 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 happened | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 town | det |
| 33 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 enter | obj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 daybreak | case |
| 35 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 enter | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 stall | punct |
| 37 | just | just | ADV | _ | 42 stall | advmod |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 stall | case |
| 39 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 stall | nmod:poss |
| 40 | Mustapha | Mustapha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Baba | flat |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 Baba | case |
| 42 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 enter | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start up | past | One | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | offer | participle | One not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | One not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | commend | past · perfect | One not said here | messenger | after the rest | for messenger's bravery; highly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for bravery=Attribute | ||
| 5 | disguise | past | messenger | messenger | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | ||||
| 6 | happen | past | One not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | enter | to-infinitive | One not said here | the town | daybreak | by Baba's stall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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